From a sprawling United Auto Workers hall outside Detroit, John Zimmick has seen factories close and grown men cry when their jobs disappear. Through all the economic uncertainties of life in auto country, there has been one constant: the union.

A string of suspicious fires Wednesday morning have burned churches and homes in Bend.

It is the king of sushi, one of the most expensive fish in the world - and dwindling so rapidly that some fear it could vanish from restaurant menus within a generation. Yet there is little alarm in Japan, the country that consumes about 80 percent...

Hurricane Sandy began the westward lurch that forecasters feared and took dead aim at New Jersey and Delaware, washing away part of the Atlantic City boardwalk, putting the presidential campaign on hold and threatening to cripple Wall Street and the NYC subway system.

Republicans and Democrats alike agree that Colorado is a toss-up in this election. Like other battleground states, a slight Obama polling edge before October here has been transformed into a deadlock. That's because independent suburban women - the...

During a campaign swing through California, President Barack Obama established a national monument on the property that was home to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez and his farmworker movement.

The only remaining operable PT boat from World War II has been listed this week in the National Register of Historic Places.

The historic Stoneman Bridge is slated for possible removal under proposed plans for restoring the natural flow of the Merced River. Stoneman and two other spandrel arch bridges has pitted environmentalists against historic preservationists.

Whether to drill for gas is causing soul-searching as cemeteries - including veterans' final resting places - join parks, playgrounds, churches and residential backyards among the ranks of places targeted in the nation's shale drilling boom.

These are good times in much of Iowa, partly due to a booming farm economy and a May jobless rate of 5.1 percent. The irony is that this prosperous state may be crucial in deciding who will win the presidency of a country still reeling from recession.